"GOD KNOWS."

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12461, 10 February 1909, Page 4

"GOD KNOWS."

} A sad stofy of an -.old woman's end (was told recently at the" inquest -at-. Whitechapel (London) on the body of Mary Ann Gibbs, aged 63. . Robert Croweil, an out of work jarman, said "that for twenty five years the woman had lived with him ! as his wife. .He left her in a: lodg'jng house on ' Wednesday with 3Jd— r -'•'all the inr-Vey I'd got,, sir-—an d. the next day /heard . she had died in infirmary^ '.:-..'. - y ■"•• '. •■. :.-.•; ... •'■'■ The Coroner : I suppose you have both -been, having a rough time?— - Yes, sir; worse luck. y TWe have only, had what we ■.'could pick up tramping about. •''-"'.'- "Bridget* McCarthy said that she had known the- deceased - about five' years,aiid generally'^- met her- :when. ; the hopping. and. pea picking was on. The Coroneri Where liad she lived ? —God knows. ■ •'■;.■. :-XX". Has she had enough to. eat ? — God knows. How did she- get a living in the -.vinter ?— --God knows. The Coroner: I am afraid that God knows a great deal more than you.do. A nurse from the infirmary to wliicli fche woman was* taken said she told witness she, had "not tasted food for" two weeks; and had hot seeu;a-bed for dwo months." : '■''.''. I Death was ■ accelerated by want of food, and a verdict wa,s returned- in ■ accordance wih the medical evidence. :